Boot problem

[Michael Sammartano]

correction: hdb appears bad
---- Michael Sammartano <volinaz at cox.net> wrote: 
> I would say  hda is bad. The table on this drive has disapeared and you cant boot from it. Try removing hdb and try to boot. hda5 is the active partition, or at least it was. It should boot from there even though it is not labeled /
> Does the BIOS recognize the drive size correctly upon boot? I would get another drive (brand new) and use the cd it comes with and mirror copy the entire disk, partition by partition. Relabel the partitions, and you should be good to go. Do not try to write to the old disk anymore, this will incur data loss..
> ---- joe <joe at tlnf.com> wrote: 
> > .
> > Michael Sammartano <volinaz at cox.net> wrote: (Tue, 01 Aug 08:32 -0700 ??)
> > > ... Drive failure. The partition table is not 
> > > capable of retaining the data writen to it. The drive needs to have 
> > > a recovery done on it to recover the data, further trials on the 
> > > drive will render the useful data useless. I do not understand the 
> > > constant cat and mouse game on this issue. ... If there is a physical 
> > > issue, it can not be fixed. 
> > 
> > Which drive do you think has failed?  And how can one confirm that? 
> > 
> > hda is an older 8-gig drive, but it is the one that is now booting
> > and it apparently has the MBR on it.
> > 
> > hdb is a fairly new 80-gig drive, and we can still read all the 
> > data on it by booting with a Knoppix live CD. 
> > 
> > Do you think I could install a Linux system on hda and then 
> > restore lilo in the MBR on it and thereby access both drives? 
> > 
> > 
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